Carolyn Krause presents Jim Roberto’s story about how element 117 named tennessine was discovered and what he thinks are the prospects of, and obstacles to, creating elements 119 and 120 and even ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Scientists have discovered a new component of circuitry. For centuries, we thought circuits only had ...

Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...

We’ve reached the limit of a very successful way to make new elements in the lab. In new research, scientists unveil a new take on that technology and report its success. The heaviest elements could ...

One of the proud achievements of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the discovery of three elements either by its own staff or in collaboration with other institutions in the United States and Russia.

Subsequent to the discovery of nickel-cobalt-copper mineralization at Keel Red in 2022 (news release January 25, 2023), the mineralized 27.1 m interval of diamond drill hole IB22-020 has been analyzed ...

Different elements exist on Earth, each with distinct physical and chemical properties based on their atomic structure. To ...

For the first time, high-grade rare earth elements (REEs) have been discovered in the Gardar region of Southern Greenland. This groundbreaking finding could place Southern Greenland among the key ...

In simulating properties of molecules and materials, computational chemistry has the potential to accelerate scientific discovery for a wide variety of applications by reducing the need for costly and ...